Meanwhile, in further China Olympic lock down news, Mei Fong reports on the Journal's blog:

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Beijing’s International Center for Veterinary Services says as of today its Royal Canin dog food suppliers will be unable to truck in deliveries from its Tianjin warehouse. And there won’t be any new deliveries of its food – a specialized brand typically sold at pet stores and by vets – until September.

facebook is dead and so is myspace... how weird, considering myspace has it's own chinese version. i can't understand why these sites are blocked while blogspot is working. doesn't blogspot have more "subversive" potential???

Aren't people being too cynical and paranoid? Facebook is working all the time for me in Xinjiang, and considering its Xinjiang, I doubt there are any move on part of the government to block it. Just relax, just some technial problems.

Facebook first went down here in Changsha, about three days ago. It worked yesterday, but is now down again. I don't know what games the Chinese are playing, but they better stop. Cutting people off from their friends and family is not funny.

I haven't been able to acces my FB account for three days here in Chengdu, and other people I know haven't been able to either! It's almost like depriving one of a personal e-mailing account at this point.

Happy to see Facebook is again accessible in Beijing (9:35 a.m. on Thursday, July 3) -- after having failed to fetch it for the past day.

On a related side-note: I was also happy to be tipped off (thanks to a comment above) that Blogspot blogs are in fact now accessible. That had consistently not been the case recently in the past month or two (and it had likewise not been the case for me when in Beijing last autumn).

I thought (vis-a-vis Facebook and Blogspot): you lose one, win another. For now (this morning), they both show evidence of extant existence; -- as if a thousand internet flowers might blossom, a thousand sites contend.

Possible temporary fix, I was able to access it again by clearing my temporary internet files and cookies. I could navigate through all parts as normal. It worked as long as I lef tthe same window open. But once I closed it, I could not access it again.

It worked on July 3rd, in Shanghai. It was very iffy on July 4th, in Shanghai. It worked fine July 6th in Fuzhou. Now, July 7th, it doesn't. (Tried everything=Two cities, four computers, two browsers, LAN connections, advanced options)

China Unicom/Telecom probably serve the most unreliable intraweb ever. The GoldenShield of China just worsens everything. I can't even tell when a page won't load if the internet's down again or if the site is blocked. 8(

Facebook has been up and running in Nanjing all day today. In the past, I have often encountered difficulty accessing Facebook in Internet bars, both in Jiangsu and other provinces. Internet bar servers often redirect Facebook queries to Baidu or some other website. I traveled in Sichuan and Yunnan earlier this year and it was very difficult to access Facebook there. Accessing it often required a variety of tricks such as going directly to the log-in page, rather than facebook.com.